The Serbian occupiers, being unparalleled criminals, tried to cover up the monstrous crime they had committed by offering the well-known Prizren orthopaedist and traumatologist, Dr. Halil Berisha, a document to sign claiming that Professor Xhemajli Berisha had allegedly jumped from the prison window and committed suicide.

But the patriotic doctor, when he saw how the criminals had torn the body of the unyielding Xhemajli Berisha into pieces, followed in the footsteps of his famous predecessor, the patriot Dr. Ali Sokoli, who had refused to sign the death by torture of Fazli Graiqevci. He categorically refused to sign the document.

The Serbian criminals took revenge on 3 June 1989.

One and a half months after the murder by torture of Professor Xhemajli Berisha, they poisoned the patriotic doctor Halil Berisha.

Dr. Halil Berisha died in the hospital in Skopje, in North Macedonia.

A painting showing the great Albanian Dr. Halil Berisha on his deathbed, poisoned by the UDB-a (Yugoslav secret police).

(Excerpt from my speech delivered at the Political Academy in Prizren, in honour of the 20th anniversary of the torture and murder of the Hero of the Nation, Professor Xhemajli Berisha!)

Halil Berisha

Ismet Sylejmani
Prishtina, 22 March 2026